Quotes

Susan B. Anthony photo
Arthur Conan Doyle photo
Woody Allen photo

“Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Emil M. Cioran photo

“To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!”

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

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“Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.”

Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic

Source: Advice to Young Musicians

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Carl Sagan photo

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing, p. 12
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Jon Krakauer photo
Boyd K. Packer photo
Laurens van der Post photo
Jennifer Donnelly photo
Frithjof Schuon photo

“We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

Source: Esoterism as Principle and as Way

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Lev Grossman photo
Albert Einstein photo

“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Maureen Johnson photo

“We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

William Morris photo

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”

William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman

The Decorative Arts (1877)

Dan Brown photo
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